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Volume II, Issue XLI

An Antidote to the MSM's Islamophilia

The 'other' Weekly News Magazine [click to read] focuses this week on 'anti-government militias.' Funny how they can't seem to see how the government is growing increasingly anti-citizen. Consider how the body of law has grown as thousands of pages are regularly added to the legal code. A kid eating french fries on a subway train suddenly finds herself arrested for a criminal offense! You probably broke some law today before you had your first cup of coffee!

But don't worry. The next attack on America won't be from some 'anti-government militia,' but more likely will come from Ameriphobic Jihadists.

I used to chuckle in airport security lines as I waited behind Grandma and some blonde woman... then 'Jihad Jane' appeared. This blonde Philadelphia housewife was indeed a member of a radical group intenton doing violence to the USA! Closer to home, just outside of Lynchburg, Virginia, is the home of 'Muslims of America.'

They maintain a compound in Red House, Virginia and have been reported on by Gates of Vienna [click to read].

They aren't exactly practicioners of a 'religion of peace.'

In fact, they are but one example of this type of compound in the US. Even as the MSM tries to mainstream the 'Ground Zero Imam,' who is radical enough, they ignore the really dangerous groups setting up shop in out of the way places.



Health News You Can Use

Never Mix PMS and Dr. Pepper [click to read]. Yankee Phil has the details. Here is conclusive proof that the results can be dangerous! Watch the video closely to see for yourself.

Say Again?
Congress Shreds the Constitution, but Sign Bothers MSM


No doubt you've seen these trailers along the interstate. A concerned citizen put them there as Congress continued to ignore the Constitution and the will of the people. Still, the local newspaper finds an odd reason for its own concern. The sign might be in violation of local zoning laws.

Augusta County and Freedom of Speech [click to read].

The media had no problem with This Sign [click to read]!

Who's the Bigot Again, Ms. Pelosi?

It Cant be Feisal Abdul Rauf, Can it?

Nat Hentoff [click to read] in Jewish World Review makes a clear and concise presentation of the facts surrounding the Ground Zero Mosque and its controversial imam. I guess Ms. Pelosi will be investigating him now.

THYME Magazine

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Volume II, Issue XXXIV

The 'other' Weekly News Magazine [click to read] asks the question: "Is America Islamophobic?" in reference to the flack being generated by the Ground Zero Mosque [THYME's editorial directive says we have to call it that].

Well, let's not forget who started this war [yes, THYME's editorial directive says we have to call it a war -- this is a tough place to work for the politically correct]. The pay is pretty lousy too.

The attacks on America are documented on our cover starting with the seizure of the US Embassy in 1979. We're not going back as far as the Barbary Pirates. Our Marines whipped them a long time ago. Our point is this is a long standing hostility and its story has many chapters.

Could it be that to understand this conflict, journalists need to be looking for the source of its ignition?

Be Sure to Thank These Guys...

Lynn Has the Details [click to read]. They're fighting this WAR to keep us safe.

9-11 Hard Hat Pledge

These Construction Workers [click to read] won't lift a finger to build the Ground Zero Mosque. I'm with them. I sure wouldn't do renderings for this project at its present proposed location. Does this mean Speaker Pelosi will now be investigating construction workers? ht/No Sheeples Here

Update: 'Ameriphopia'

Notes on the Word [click to read] from American Thinker.

"I've just Googled "Ameriphobia" and, indeed, some 634 uses come up. A tiny number, but the word has been used -- just not popularized. Now might be the time!" -- American Thinker

We cannot claim the word originated here at THYME, but we'd love to help promote its usage.

Ground Zero Mosque is More than a Mistake

The Voices that Really Matter in this Debate


ht/SWAC Girl

Extreme Irony... You Can Build a Mosque, not a Church

Phil has This Report [click to read] on the plight of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center.

Update: AP's PC Memo:

It is a good thing that I write for THYME and not for Associated Press. Apparently I've broken AP Rules [click to read] twice in as many days.

Ground Zero Mosque is More than a Mistake

This 'Outreach' is Really a Call to Surrender

Star Parker has This Clear Analysis [click to read].

Feisel Abdul Rauf says that he wants to 'improve' America's relations with the Muslim world. Unfortunately that translates something like: "agree with us or die."

"The website for the project, the Cordoba Initiative, advertises itself as "Improving Muslim-West Relations", and "steering the world back to the course of mutual recognition and respect and away from heightened tensions." But if Feisel Abdul Rauf is primarily motivated to "reduce heightened tensions," why would he do something as obviously provocative as building a Mosque and Islamic Center a few feet away from 9/11 Ground Zero? " -- Star Parker.

Seen in Charlottesville

Does this Really Need a Caption?

Faisal Shahzad's U.S. Citizenship

How Jihadists are 'Gaming the System'

Michelle Malkin Has This [click to read] in Jewish World Review.

"Jihadists have been gaming the sham marriage racket with impunity for years. And immigration benefit fraud has provided invaluable cover and aid for U.S.-based Islamic plotters, including many other operatives planning attacks on New York City. As I've reported previously" -- Michelle Malkin

I Take Back Everything I Ever Said About TSA!

With Today's News I Have New Understanding...


'Jihad Jane,' AKA Colleen LaRose.

Yes, I admit it, I used to chuckle at airports when I was escorted to the wand screening area. After hours on an airplane with a day's beard growth and no access to a razor, I might look sort of terrifying. Inevitably though I would find myself waiting behind 1. A blonde lady and 2. Grandma! I laughed at the extremes of 'politically correct' screening. But I was wrong!

Colleen LaRose looks like an ordinary housewife from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Perhaps she's the descendent of some Continental Army soldier who didn't get paid, but her conversion to Islam and involvement in recruiting Jihadists has her neighbors wondering. I honestly don't see what Islam holds that is so enticing to women, especially AMERICAN women! I guess the veil is more liberating than equality feminism after all.

She was working under orders from militants to go to Sweden and kill a Swedish artist who depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a dog. I guess I'd better not put his face on a groundhog, huh? Still, we live in a world where free nations are repeatedly cast as oppressors and oppressive nations are cast as the victims. Waterboarding, in that world, is more terrible than Saddam Hussein's sons throwing their enemies alive into a plastic shredder.

I guess repeating a lie long enough makes it believable. Ms. LaRose believed it.

A Jihadist Hiding in Plain Sight

Mark Steyn Has Some Straight Up Analysis

Mark Steyn [click to read] in Jewish World Review.

American Thinker [click to read] has this important observation on Jihad. The Quran is unique in how it presents this doctrine and it is specious reasoning to try to find parallels in Biblical sources.

Media Bias:


ht/ Phil

Jihad in the White House

Is Mubarack Hussein Obama a Muslim?


"Give me a child until the age of seven and I will give you the man." -- Jesuit Saying.

Maybe it was the creepy extended bow to the Saudi King, or the way he seems all to willing to throw Netanyahu under the bus but when I came across an article by Victor Mordecai asking the question "Is Obama a Muslim?" I took notice.

His Kenyan Father and his Stepfathers were clearly Muslims and his early education was in that tradition. To observant Muslims in the Middle East that qualifies him. Still, to ask the question invites the label "lunatic fringe" for reasons that have largely been manufactured out of Political Correctness.

Mr. Mordecai's wife monitors Arabic radio broadcasts and has documented the following:

Saudi Radio in the months before Obama's election stated: "We will have a Muslim in the White House."

Lybia's Quaddafi said of Obama after his election: "Our man in the White house."

One station stated that Obama would first deal with the Shi'ite of Iran who "threaten all Sunni Muslims" then deal with the "fanatic" new government of Israel under Netanyahu.

Conventional wisdom has it that Obama's education in Muslim schools until age 11 are in the past, just as his association with Jeremiah Wright. Unfortunately Wright's church, with its James Cone inspired Black Liberation Theology is more Marxist in its core philosophy and Christian in the use of language and symolism. If Barack Obama is a Christian there is not a lot of evidence to convict him of it.

Fringe thoughts? Perhaps, but when you have a President who is uncomfortable with 'Victory' in Afganistan [although he seeks it outright for his domestic policies], drags his feet on supporting his troops and bows at the waist to the Saudi King, is the question really all that unreasonable?

Update: From Obama to Osama with Love [click to read] perspective from 'Gates of Vienna.'

Jihad in Virginia

Red House Virginia's Terrorist Training Camp



This is a fairly old Fox News report, but it is still important.

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Volume I, Issue XII

Editor's Note: This feature has always been a parody of the other weekly news magazine and this time around their website was slow in putting up the cover. I suspected it would have to do with the terrible attack on soldiers at Ft. Hood. I was prepared to punt on the parody this time because of the terrible nature of this event. When the cover was put up, unfortunately, it reflected the general unwillingness of the mainstream media to call a terrorist a terrorist. Therefore it seemed fitting to use this format as a lead-in to a straightforward discussion of terrorism. The black border is in tribute, as TIME's September 11 issue did, to the victims in this terrible war.


Calling a terrorist a terrorist.

First of All, Let's Answer the Question:"What About the Crusades?"

Ibn Warraq [click to read] in City Journal:

"Often, when I am criticizing crimes inspired by Islamic extremism, Iam interrupted by the remark that Christianity was once culpable of similar abuses. That Christianity may have been intolerant in the past, however, does not make criticisms of Islam’s present-day intolerance any less valid. Also, Islamic intolerance is an immediate danger, whereas Christian intolerance is generally a historical phenomenon and no longer a threat to civilization. And Christendom’s crimes were recorded by Christians themselves—a stark contrast to our politically correct climate, in which many, especially Muslims, are reluctant to criticize Islam."

Now, About Jihad

Let's look back to a time when the Muslim world almost overran Europe.The Siege of Vienna in 1529 saw the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent, lay siege in an attempt to capture the city of Vienna, Austria. Although they were turned back, the Ottoman Empire tried to conquer Vienna again.

Their final attempt was in 1683 and the King of Poland reinforced the Austrians in the final battle. That battle took place on September 11,1683. The Ottoman troops were routed for the last time.

On September 11, 2001 the war with Western Civilization began anew after a 318 year hiatus.

Actually there had been a number of attacks already. The first attempt to topple the World Trade Center in 1993, the takeover of our embassy in Tehran, the USS Cole, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beruit and a host of other attacks in other parts of the world. Still, 9/11 represented something all-out, full-throttle that we had not seen before.

The Muslim faith had been gaining ground in the US too. Those who were of the mind that they were disenfranchised, such as prisoners, embraced the ideology in large numbers. Islamic centers in the Washington medtropolitan area grew and some of the Imans clearly were presenting radical Islamic ideas to their congregations.

It's easy to digress into psychoanalyzing the killer. Many young men feel frustration with the world but most voices other than rock or hip-hop musicians and radical clerics would tell them to get over it. The story here isn't the angry male but rather a culture of violence that, like the "dark side" in the Star Wars movies, channels that hate.

The take-away is that the ideology presents a clear message and has adherents within our borders. As we have seen they can ride to positions of power in our politically correct society where they are able to inflict great harm.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be put on trial in New York City, it was reported Friday. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is regarded as the planner of the attacks on September 11. Since this is clearly an act of war, why is this terrorist being tried in our court system at all and why is his presence being inflicted on Lower Manhattan, the scene of his barbaric attack? Mr. President, help me understand? Somehow in Barack's Amerika these people are not all that threatening but G-d fearing Conservatives are?

Putting "Soldier of Allah" on your business card is multicultural expression but a cross in a Veterans' memorial is "offensive?"

I find the cold blooded destruction of 3000 lives offensive and the warped ideology that spawned such a massacre I find repugnant. I find the cold blooded gunning down of fourteen American heroes [including the unborn child of one of the slain soldiers] despicable.

Mr. President, Have you no shame? Three months and four options later you are still telegraphing weakness and indecisiveness to our enemies [our REAL enemies, that is]. I'm not "Jumping to conclusions," Mr.President, I've had plenty of time to consider the conclusions I have come to.

Multiculturalism's Morass

"I Wish His Name Was 'Smith'...

Mark Steyn [click to read] in Jewish World Review is spot on!

"When it emerged early Thursday afternoon that the shooter was Nidal Malik Hasan, there appeared shortly thereafter on Twitter a flurry of posts with the striking formulation: "Please judge Maj. Malik Nadal [sic]by his actions and not by his name."

Concerned tweeters can relax: There was never really any danger of that — and not just in the sense that the New York Times' first report on Maj. Hasan never mentioned the words "Muslim" or "Islam," or that ABC's Martha Raddatz's only observation on his name was that "as for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'"

Multiculturalism operates on the flawed premise that all points of view are of equal value. It is often used to gloss over a systematic attempt to devalue the pillars of Western civilization.

Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan is Ft. Hood Gunman

11 Killed and 31 Injured as Psychiatrist Opens Fire



Fort Hood is where my nephew was stationed between his tours in Iraq. All of our prayers are with the families of Fort Hood's soldiers and personel tonight. This is a terrible act and we must do everything in our power to see that it never happens again.

Can we please stop being politically correct and just admit that there may be something to this jihad thing. Can we just honestly recognize the existence of people who despise us and want to do us harm? Can we be honest about what their belief system promotes in the way of violence?

I realize it's complicated. In World War II we interred Japanese Americans while my Father, the son of German immigrants designed aircraft for the war effort. We simply need to come to grips with the very real threat that exists in the Muslim community here. It's OK to want to know what a Muslim believes and how it leads him to live. That's an honest question to ask me as a Christian as well. If you live according to what you say you believe, what does that look like?

But don't tell me that it's a 'religion of peace' when many of its followers are not peaceful. A man may call himself a Christian but ignore the command to love his neighbor. Most don't and Christianity is very explicit about it, even going so far as to to teach charity towards one's enemies. There are peace loving Muslims who despise the violence. There are many who see 'kill the infidel' in the Quoran and live by it. How can we know what a man believes in his heart? Perhaps a direct approach is the best.

We can no longer afford to avoid asking the hard question: "What do you believe and how does that affect the way you live?" We cannot pretend that faith doesn't matter. We cannot pretend that it is no more significant that a person's shoe size. We need to come to terms with the extent to which it shapes a life.

It's not something that, whatever it is, is good in moderation but not in excess. It is a person's fundamental beliefs and we should recognize that there are beliefs that lead to nobleness in character and action and others, a very different set of beliefs, that lead to the most despicable crimes of mankind. Specific teachings that call for specific results fill our cherished texts. We need to recognize the differences with all the wisdom we can muster.

Michelle Malkin Has More [click to read].

Update: There were 14 Killed at Ft. Hood, Not 13

Michelle Malkin Has More [click to read].

The Speech He Won't Give...

...The Speech President Obama Won't
Give When He's in Egypt [But He Ought To]!

Dennis Prager in Jewish World Review [click to read].

"I ask you to please ask yourselves what Egypt's reaction would have been had 19 Christians, in the name of Christianity, slaughtered 3,000 Egyptians. How would the Christians of Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East have fared?"

Nuclear Nemesis

We Dare Not Ignore the Peril of a Nuclear Iran


Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park.

It is a quiet morning as the sun breaks forth over Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. I was visiting one of the two places where an atomic bomb was actually detonated as an act of war. Years later the place still evokes powerful feelings.

I think sadly of the mother who told her child she'd have to wait before they opened a tin of tangerines, a cherished delicacy, because it was wartime and things were scarce. When the bomb exploded the child perished and the mother lived. The woman would place an opened tin of tangerines at the daughter's grave every day for years following.

It is a place where it is easy to pray. Indeed one feels compelled to pray. There are those who would unleash this teror again in the name of Jihad. We must not let them!


Hall of Industry, which survived the blast.


Linden trees grow around the ruined building.


A raven greeted me from the fountain.

Religion of Piece[s]

So What Are We to Believe About the 'Religion of Peace?'

This Story from the Buffalo News [click to read] was so unbelievable that I had to check it out for myself. Muzzammil Hassan started Bridges TV, concerned that Americans were seeing only violent images of Muslims. The idea was to counter that perception but now it seems that Mr. Hassan dealt with a domestic dispute just like the folks do back home. He beheaded his wife!

Granted, all of us fall short of being the best we can as representatives of our faith, but think of the matter this way; it's what life is really like in the Muslim world for millions of people. What Mr. Hassan did has happened countless times in a society that accepts it. We are shocked because of our Jewish and Christian worldview foundations that resonate with our fundamental sense that this is wrong. I would guess that this fundamental sense would be present in the family of Mrs. Hassan, even in a culture that supports her killing.

It seems to me that the best way to change people's perception would be to simply show respect for women and religious minorities such as the Christians and Jews in these countries. Palestinian TV could do more to inform rather than incite as well. Recognizing Israel wouldn't hurt either. Then real peace would be more than a distant dream.

ht: Rush Limbaugh

Update:

The Western World and Sharia Law [click to read].
It's not only an assault on personal liberties but on Christian minorities as well.